Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

Character is that which can do without success.

The world is his who has money to go over it.